Fantasy Romance discussion

*Spoiler Alert!*
Want to rant and rave about what went down and who went up in UM? here's your parking space!

Me!!! Oh this is so me. Unchained Melody messed with my head. I'm still thinking about it all this time later! Not ranting though just confused about something and need someone to talk to about it!!!

I'm always here! Fire away!

Okay! Just an FYI I am prone to idiot moments when I'm over excited and reading a book so if I have overlooked something vital and completely missed the point feel free to virtual slap me ;)
Here goes - so as it turned out Ryan (swooon) was Callies soulmate the whole time. Callie wanted to be with him but he went to oblivion and one day when she gave up being the Muse (her child takes over right?) she could go to Oblivion too. Well her and Ryan had a child so i figured it was only a matter of time before she ends up there with him. But...then at the end they were talking about making Hunter immortal and giving her a new soulmate soooo....? Ryan disappears into oblivion forever on his own and she lives HEA with Hunter forever? Or she has 2 soulmates?? I'm a little lost. And it's killing me!!

I hope that makes sense and doesn't come across as frantic rambling.

That makes perfect sense to me. I think I will hang around for the answer and then be all " oh yeah, of course I knew that"

Btw.. Loving the changes around here. Nice initiative SK!

Okay no that question completely makes sense :)

I guess it's confusing because my definition of what a soul mate is differs from the traditional perspective. If you've read TFS you'll see that I like to tweak the rules of what love is and what value one love can have compared to another. Ever since I watched the movie 'Ever After' I've been turning over what the prince asked Da Vinci about True Love, what happens when you die etc etc and I like to stretch my brain trying to come up with answers :)

Callie and Ryan were soul-mates. He was bound to her by her father. But because she was never there to fall in love with him, being her soul mate was torture, compared to being her human match, if only for the briefest of moments- she never would have fallen for Ardos because she just did not notice him there. He made that sacrifice knowing that as a Demi-god, not a real one, like Zeus or Callie or her sisters, he'd never be able to come back from Oblivion- and I believe that where he went, is where we all go. I think of it as heaven, and though his spirit was strong enough to linger, similar enough to a haunting, he was bound to his human body so when it died, he did too.

After he died, Callie no longer had a soul mate. So because Zeus was returning, along with Memoria and Hendra due to the power of imagination, the chance would eventually arise for Zeus to bind Callie to another human- to make Hunter a Demi-god as Ardos had been. In my mind, maybe ten years after the epilogue takes place, Hunter would be offered immortality the way Ardos had been, and would be able to retire with Callie, as her soul-mate, while Callie and Ryan's daughter replaced her as the muse of music.

They would live as long as the earth, however they wanted to- as humans or in Helicon, not in Oblivion.

So to sum up... all of them were soul mates. Not just Ryan and Callie, or Hunter and Callie, but Hunter and Ryan too, Rya would have come to love Hunter as a father, and Callie would have given her worshipful memories of her biological father.

And as for that... Don't forget Callie was half human herself when Ryan, also half-human, impregnated her. That's why the rules changed. If she'd had a baby with Hunter who was only human, their child wouldn't have had the immortal lineage to become the Muse of music anyway.

Yes I had tears pouring down my face for Ryan too, believe me! Not just when I wrote it either but every time I've re-read it since. Ryan didn't get to be with the girl, but he got to be the hero, which was how he almost died as a human the first time around, for the little girl with the Lyre.

S.K. wrote: "Okay no that question completely makes sense :)

I guess it's confusing because my definition of what a soul mate is differs from the traditional perspective. If you've read TFS you'll see that I l..."

All of which reminds me of a quote I read somewhere: "This is not that life yet, and not our time."

Oh man I loved Ryan so much I wanted everything for him! The girl and all :)

Thanks for explaining that. It makes total sense and cleared things up in my head. I'll stop holding out hope for R & C now! Haha. It's more or less what I thought anyway but good to have clarification. Unchained Melody has been one of my favourite books this year.

I have read FTS too and freakin adored it.

Haha Jen I'm glad it made sense to other people! I was worried that it was one of those "only in my head" things.

Oh of course.. I knew that! ;)

I find it ironic how people responded to the different guys in this story given how similar each was to Link and Tristan in TFS. And yet in this case, the brooding one won the hearts :)

I got a very, very sad fan letter after writing Unchained Melody- equal praise cussing me out and thanking me. I really didn't think people would react to him quite so intensely so if it makes you feel better, thanks to the fan's prompting- I am going to eventually write Ryan a novella of his own :)

I had a thing for Hunter this time around. It was so easy to write that special connection between him and Callie- like it was completely organic which was how I wrote Tristan in TFS. I think he and Callie belonged together because her devotion to him grew all by itself without him being her pre-destined soul mate or anything- he chose her over the music in the end.

But that's just me :) I like my heroes flawed a bit :)

Haha that is funny because I absolutely
LOVED Tristan in FTS and Linc...not so much. I felt sure I would get my heart broken and didn't so I guess I went into this book a little cocky I think! That will teach me!

That's a good point you've made about her choosing Hunter. I really didn't think about it like that. I was probably too busy sobbing into my Kindle ;)

Aaaah a Ryan novella! I can't wait for that one.